About Me

Irish by birth, Newfoundlandler by avocation - I live here 80% of the time. The other 20% is spent where the wind blows me. I think random thoughts on an even more random universe. Elevated, exhilarated and exalted by the fact I am living in this day and age. I've come all the way from hand-cranked calculators in an endless room of clerical drones to a flat monitored multi-gigabyted home office where the work comes to me. How absolutely cool is that???

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Taking Offence

Dear Diary:

Some of the gang went off to have lunch at a theatre event yesterday and then visited an older friend now in a swishy home for the aged followed by dinner at one of my favourite Chinese restaurants. A jam-packed-with-activity day.

I didn't even get a token invitation: you know, along the lines of: you must be up to your neck but hey, would you like to....

I admit it. I was hurt. That lasted about 4 minutes.

And then I started to laugh and laugh and laugh.

At myself.

Because seriously, Diary, it totally sounds like a day from hell for me: 12 hours of constant company and being "on", a horrific dinner/lunch theatre thing that every year involves at least one male actor in drag playing a simplistic, overly sexual (huge balloon breasts),short-skirted, simpering, grotesque, stupid woman that would have me gnashing my teeth in rage as all about me fall down in thigh-slapping, helpless laughter.

13 Comments:

I know a couple who go to a club every Friday night, They sit in the same corner with the same people, haveing the same conversation, week in and week out. That would bore me to tears. The world is full of people so living on repeat, means you miss out. You enjoy your business and adventures with less of the SAME!

Sometimes I feel slighted/left out when some of my friends get together without me. It's a little easier to handle when they're doing something I'm happy to be left out of, but still. Mostly it's the couple-y stuff, they don't want to or don't think to include a single friend. Much as I dislike it I can't really fault them for it, sometimes the shoe is on the other foot. I may be perfect, but perfection is rare, I am forced to hang with imperfect friends. Lol.